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With over
200 drugs and 56 cancer sites studied, we generated over 11,000 comparisons
with each over-all screening analysis. Whether or not we modify our
statistical significance testing to account for multiple comparisons, such
as by Bonferroni correction, is controversial. We are certainly concerned
with the many chance associations that occur, but we do not want to miss
important relationships. What we have done is, in many situations, lower
the p value of interest from 0.05 to 0.01. But more important, we emphasize
in our reports that many of the associations that we observe are merely due
to chance.
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